They are all lynchings because lynching is an extrajudicialexecution often carried out by a mob, usually by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people. The police have replaced the white mob but the killing is still extrajudicialor without a trial.

Since the defination of lynching is an extra judicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people, then all these pictures show lynching. The first picture is of a woman hanging, the second of a man being burned by a mob and the third of an innocent youth being shot by a police officer. All of them quality to the definition of lynching.